. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . iness as consultingengineer with railroad appliances andequipment as a specialty. We frequently direct from iron ore. wants the govern-ment to take up the process and make$10 a ton on the product turned out. Thecurious thing about the situation, likethat in regard to the electric smelting ofiron which the Canadian Government isspending money over, is that men whoare in the business and are willing toput out millions in improving their plants,do not seem to think it worth while tnbother about
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . iness as consultingengineer with railroad appliances andequipment as a specialty. We frequently direct from iron ore. wants the govern-ment to take up the process and make$10 a ton on the product turned out. Thecurious thing about the situation, likethat in regard to the electric smelting ofiron which the Canadian Government isspending money over, is that men whoare in the business and are willing toput out millions in improving their plants,do not seem to think it worth while tnbother about the new schemes. It looksas if they were designed for governmentsto handle. October, 1904. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 447 An Underground Instruction Car. riic Intfrljoroiigli Rajiid Transit Com-pany, of New York, in carrying out thewise educational policy inaugurated byMr. Frank Hcdlcy, the general su-perintendent of the road, have equippedan instruction car for the Subway Di-vision somewhat similar to the instruc-tion carused ontheir Manhattan RailwayDivision, which latter was illustrated. CAR—INTERBOKOUGHRAPID TRANSIT CO. and described in the January, 1904, issueof Railway and Locomotive Engineer-ing. The school car here illustrated is oneof the copper covered subway cars, andthe equipment has been installed by S. Doyle, master mechanic of the elec-trical department of the ManhattanDivision. The car is equipped withbrake apparatus for cars, andby an increase of train pipe area in tli ■car, the same volume of air as the six cartrain takes is used in the shorter but big-ger pipe. The instruction pump, if wemay so call it, does the same work inmaking a stationary stop for the class,as it would do in actual service. The brakecylinders are 12 ins. diameter and West-inghouse quick action triple valves areused. There is, of course, a moiorman^brake valve and a sectional model of thesame, and there is a combined auxiliaryand brake cylinder so arran
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